Word: thumbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LOVE-Paul Geraldy-Button ($1). A realistic Frenchman, Author Géraldy here lectures on what most Anglo-Saxons would call profane love. But he titillates no libidinous itch in this little monograph of precepts. Here is a plenty of theory but no rules of thumb. Many a bewildered Babbitt might profit by one or another of these Gallic apothegms. For example: "I love you" should never sound like a call for help. . . . And don't bother to tell me that you insist on being loved for what you are. You are worth more than that." No Columbus, Author...
Guests saw the course, paid Mr. Carter to build others in their home cities. The U. S. asked him to design one for a District of Columbia park. At this point a great idea came to the Master of Fairyland Inn. He patented his special greens, the name "Tom Thumb Golf." Patents for his hollow log hazard and other features are pending. Tom Thumb Golf courses became his private property, to use as he would. And he used them shrewdly. A Mr. J. P. Young of Florida, land of many real estate schemes, joined with him and they started...
...vacant lot of 60 ft. by 120 ft. or more will do for the Tom Thumb Golf course. The outfit costs $2,000, and an additional sum (more than $1,000) is required for lighting, office and fence equipment. So far Mr. Carter has reaped royalties from about 5,000 courses, 150 of which were sold by the New York office alone during the past 60 days. Still slightly incredulous, he is amazed at the increasing backlog of unfilled orders...
Large scale advertising (THAR'S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS, STRANGER-MILLIONS WILL PLAY) serves both to attract buyers and players. The eloquent Tom Thumb booklet explains: "Passersby see the course, they see people putting-they stop-they lean on the fence surrounding the course-they watch the ball as it travels toward the cup-they scream-they laugh . . . they are fascinated-they want to play-they do play . . . they laugh-they scream-they groan-at last they are playing golf...
...wasting away without apparent cause. She soon discovers that the children are anemic from undernourishment. The mother is almost a dipsomaniac. A paternal uncle, the nurse suspects, is a villain who is scheming to get control of the family fortune, has his sister-in-law under his thumb, has bribed the .doctor to let the children die. Nurse Hart, with the help of her bootlegger swain, circumvents the plot, rescues the family at the cost of her professional reputation. Night Nurse has evidently been written by one familiar with nursing practice. It digresses long enough to give a detailed version...